Applied AI Data Scientist - Production ML & Evaluation

DLA Piper; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Hybrid in-office/remote arrangement

Job summary

DLA Piper in Reston, VA seeks a Data Scientist for Applied AI Solutions to design and deploy machine learning solutions, translating legal, regulatory, and business needs into practical analytic and testing approaches, including bias and accuracy evaluation.

You will use Python and SQL extensively, build scalable models, manage structured and unstructured datasets, and collaborate with lawyers and clients to deliver measurable outcomes across complex engagements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, statistics, applied mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience creating and using advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and apply algorithmic testing methods to evaluate AI systems for bias, accuracy, reliability, robustness, and performance.
• Create novel testing techniques, metrics, and evaluation frameworks for emerging AI systems and risks.
• Translate legal, regulatory, and business requirements into analytic objectives, testable criteria, data specifications, and defensible technical solutions.
• Partner with internal stakeholders, lawyers, and clients to identify opportunities to leverage data for business, legal, investigative, and regulatory needs.
• Coordinate across legal, technical, and business teams to implement solutions, monitor outcomes, and refine models and testing methods.
• Communicate methods, findings, risks, and actionable insights to technical and non-technical audiences through client-ready analyses, documentation, and presentations.

Skills

Python

SQL

R

SAS

NLTK

Scikit-Learn

Excel

Tableau

Power BI

Jupyter

Hadoop

Azure

Azure AI services

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, statistics, applied mathematics, or a related field

Tools

Hadoop

Azure

Azure AI services

Jupyter

Tableau

Job description

DLA Piper in Reston, VA seeks a Data Scientist for Applied AI Solutions to design and deploy machine learning solutions, translating legal, regulatory, and business needs into practical analytic and testing approaches, including bias and accuracy evaluation.

You will use Python and SQL extensively, build scalable models, manage structured and unstructured datasets, and collaborate with lawyers and clients to deliver measurable outcomes across complex engagements.